The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.
The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.
Alvin Jackson is Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College Oxford. He has taught at University College Dublin, Boston College and - as Professor of Modern Irish History - at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of seven books, including The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (OUP, 2012), and has edited The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (OUP, 2014). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He also holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: the United Kingdom and its analogues * 2: The unions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1535-1922): case studies * 3: European unions and beyond: case studies * 4: Centripede: the institutional bolsters of union * 5: Alternative unions: federalism * 6: Centrifuge: why do unions fail? * 7: Untied kingdoms: past politics and present history * Select union chronology (covering the issues and events addressed in the study)
* 1: Introduction: the United Kingdom and its analogues * 2: The unions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1535-1922): case studies * 3: European unions and beyond: case studies * 4: Centripede: the institutional bolsters of union * 5: Alternative unions: federalism * 6: Centrifuge: why do unions fail? * 7: Untied kingdoms: past politics and present history * Select union chronology (covering the issues and events addressed in the study)
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